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Show SETTLE DISPUTE IN OLD-FASHIONED WAY ,, ?aitL?k0' July s The field for the ShiS00d feud has beon s,nce Zr.i?1 nd ln back yTA an-Z an-Z '1 k 0n"f' aud a ,arW number of those who fill tb0 dock in the po-lice po-lice court every day see tho begin-feSco begin-feSco doubles over their back - Ernest Rich, one of the principal w-Jf ll R WlSt s!d0 fcurt- "d wPho was tried. In the police court yestor- ; w.soai!.on a charK ofS eaw his troubles come nfo beiwr ovnr od,wlth bavlrv- bntered the coK So Vh ls a ghbof Aia rtr 0re numer0u witnesses for and JSS!1 "Q TV- f?r thc fnweouttei ferest ?5 Lthem hadT Personal in- ffi dn-oomTn8 stS diced and she said: "No r hK anything aaginst J.!m-oV, onco ho , s Ari mmmmmmmmm threw a monkey wrench, at me.'' : The ovldenco showed that the quarrel quar-rel had arisen over things which women of the respective families said, and as neither of tho men could see I the veracity of their women folks attacked at-tacked or even questioned they fought h a good, old-fashioned fist fight, , u They challenged each other and set the time and place for the combat and Invited a number of their friends ,' to tuend. as Is the custom of French duellists. Tho testimony showed that 1 when Mathows was down on his knees f ho drew a revolver on Rich. How- i ever, It did not explpdo and was talc- : en away from him before anv harm was accomplished and the fight cor tlnued until Mathews was ready to 'n7nfl.'N05Bh-" T,hen b0th men ook I hands and walked homo together and the war was declared off. Then Mathews swore to a complaint against KrvChaU6.1,tmtw,tn assa't d ' th ,1 m ,Th0 JUlT In tho caS0 fou ' tnat Rich was not guilty : ! -. |